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My story, Somewhere-on-Sea, has been published by Prole Books in the latest edition of their anthology series, Prole 22. It is a story that I’ve had a soft spot for ever since I wrote it, but as my editor said, this…Read more

I’ve just returned from my week long sojourn at Glastonbury working for the charity Children’s World by helping with the accreditation in the Theatre & Circus fields. It was muddy; very muddy; immovably, miserably muddy. My eldest daughter loved it,…Read more

I’ve submitted a few stories here and there and await rejection with impatient grace. I’ve written a new story, Le Grand Mort (or La Grande Mort – not sure of which title to go with yet, although I rather like…Read more

Well, it’s Easter and the one thing I wanted to achieve by this arbitrary deadline, I haven’t. Damn. The digital marketing certification is complete, bar the final exam, but it has taken way more time than I had anticipated. As a…Read more

It’s been a while. Christmas came and went. I finished the first draft of my 2nd novel. It’s called The Darkness in Light – but that might change. I like it. It’s short. More like a long novella if I’m honest….Read more

There are few things more satisfying than completing a run that you’ve trained for and the first draft of a novel that you have pushed uphill, one paragraph after another. In the last month I competed in the 10km Major Series,…Read more

A review of Unthology4, by Tim Love at Litrefs Reviews, that I missed when published in March, which said nice things about my story, The Murder of Crows: “The first few stories are slice-of-life – a man on a beach…Read more

I don’t get interviewed very often. When I do I always hate the finished result – questions I should have answered better – opinions that would have been better left unsaid – a fear of sounding trite, or pretentious, or dull….Read more

It’s has been some time since I’ve written a state of (my) nation piece and so hear goes… As you can see from the picture I’ve grown a beard! It appeared whilst I was ill and daughter No.2 said I…Read more

My story, Valery and Michael, was published in the Spring / Summer edition of the American Red City Review. The introductory words of the managing director, Alexander Rigby, made me smile: “Within these pages are nine riveting stories that are…Read more